Posted on 10/21/2005 12:23:51 AM PDT by janetgreen
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."
"Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
"Community" is sometimes called "space" but the CFR goal is clear: "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely." The CFR's "integrated" strategy calls for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."
The CFR document lays "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." The "common security perimeter" will require us to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations" with Mexico and Canada, "harmonize entry screening," and "fully share data about the exit and entry of foreign nationals."
This CFR document, called "Building a North American Community," asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.
It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North American summit, that President Bush pinned the epithet "vigilantes" on the volunteers guarding our border in Arizona.
A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, where the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, told a news conference that "we want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders." The White House issued a statement that the Ottawa report "represents an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership."
The CFR document calls for creating a "North American preference" so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages.
Just to make sure that bringing cheap labor from Mexico is an essential part of the plan, the CFR document calls for "a seamless North American market" and for "the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico."
The document's frequent references to "security" are just a cover for the real objectives. The document's "security cooperation" includes the registration of ballistics and explosives, while Canada specifically refused to cooperate with our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
To no one's surprise, the CFR plan calls for massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers will include so-called "multilateral development" from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, "long-term loans in pesos," and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private capital to Mexico.
The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.
The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a "tested once" principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.
The CFR document demands that we implement "the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.
Here's another handout included in the plan. U.S. taxpayers are supposed to create a major fund to finance 60,000 Mexican students to study in U.S. colleges.
To ensure that the U.S. government carries out this plan so that it is "achievable" within five years, the CFR calls for supervision by a North American Advisory Council of "eminent persons from outside government . . . along the lines of the Bilderberg" conferences.
The best known Americans who participated in the CFR Task Force that wrote this document are former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and Bill Clinton's immigration chief Doris Meissner. Another participant, American University Professor Robert Pastor, presented the CFR plan at a friendly hearing of Senator Richard Lugar's Foreign Relations Committee on June 9.
Ask your Senators and Representatives which side they are on: the CFR's integrated North American Community or U.S. sovereignty guarded by our own borders.
No suprise at all, it started with NAFTA and is being pushed forward to completion with CAFTA and the FTAA.
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Resurrect Manifest Destiny. Aim to the north first, then to the south. The first round of Manifest Destiny took us from sea to sea. This second round must take us from arctic to tropic.
Yeah, and Federal Reserve is a private bank that should never have had the power to print the American dollar.
Bush will be known as the person that allowed the US to fall to third world status. The One Worlders will praise his name.
I agree. Buchanan is great on social conservatism. I applaud him every time. But he is a liberal when it comes to Israel – towing the European line that it is all Israel’s fault and that if we pull all financial and diplomatic support from Israel all will be doves and roses in the Middle East. He almost seems to want to hug a Palestinian.
Then Ted Kennedy will love it.
I don’t know about junior, but I distinctly remember shuddering inside every time Bush senior mentioned the “New World Order”.
Nevertheless, a "North American Union" has been discussed among policy wonks since I was a lad, and its something all of us should be concerned about.
Giuliani loves using the term "liberal Democracy" and is a CFR member.
Giuliani is (vehemently) anti gun, refused to allow the schools to report illegal immigrant children or cops to report their parents, pro-gay (big time), and pro-choice. He's also a CFR member. We can do better.
Yep. In spades.
I'm assuming that the definition of a liberal democracy is whatever the current tyrant says it is.
We do not believe there will be any wide open borders. There will only be wide open borders for mexicans and (possibly) canadians. Americans will be welcome in neither country, and potentially not very welcome at home either.
How can these goons THINK they can ever get away with this without AMERICANS APPROVAL. These goons can plan all they want to...it'll NEVER HAPPEN!!! They'll have to take our guns first...that's what a constitutional Republic is all about...WE THE PEOPLE!!!
How much paranoia anyone wants to indulge as a result of these facts is up to them. People can draw their own conclusions.
After all, just being a member of the Klan doesn't mean you're a racist ... does it?
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